Worst game ever?

Many contenders. Myst (was that really a game??!!), diablo, die by the sword, 1602 a.d., warcraft....I used to have return to krondor, it was really cool, but the cd's got scratched up
Now I play the Civ games almost exclusively, olthough the original AoE wasn't bad. HOMM3:the shadow of death was ok, too.

Diablo??? Warcraft??? bad games? Man are you crazy? That is blasphemy.. Those are some of the best games ever.

I don't personally know anyone who has played Diablo and didn't become an addict.

The original Diablo?? Gee, click. Click there. click click click. Am I having fun yet? Pong was more exciting, lol. I never played Warcraft for over 5-10 minutes, so maybe I missed something...

I think you have to be of the "Ooo almost at the next level, what new skills/spells do I get" mind to enjoy Diablo.
Coming from a MUD playing background this trapped me

Same here, I love games like that. Another game almost as good as the Diablos is Arcanum "Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura"

Arcanum is an awesome game. I wouldn't compare it to Diablo though. It was made by the people who made Fallout 1 & 2. It's huge. I'll refrain from talking more about it or else I'll feel the urge to re-install it.:dead:

I was comparing it to Diablo because the feel and gameplay are similar. Yes Fallout 1 and 2 were also great games. But Arcanum was just spectacular, I especially liked the way that every situation you got into had several possible outcomes according to your responses. The one thing I never could figure out was how to properly get rid of Whisper "the elf who wanted to go to Tarant" If I disbanded her as soon as we got there she got mad, if I did nothing she would just say she has to get going every few minutes but never leaves. I just told here to wait for me and never came back for her. I also never found the Azrams Star(or whatever it was called) the thing that was in like a maze with a bunch of torches you had to shoot out. I finally gave up and went about my other quests. I especially liked the Stillwater Beast, the reference to Monty Python was very amusing.

I loved civ2 and SMAC, but I was very dissappointed in civ:CTP, and I was a little disappointed with civ3, when I 1st got it, but it's really grown on me. There are mods at Apolyton and Civfanatics that nearly make it into civ4:grinthumb
As far as the magic type of games go, it's old, and sorta primitive, but "Magician", for the old nintendo was good....a lot of those old original nintendos were good...Silent Service, a submarine game, used every button, on both controllers, at once...I taped'em to a peice of plywood...it was great

Yeah, it's the same with me. I absolutely fell in love with Civ 2, it was the only thing I played in my Mac days. SMAC in my book is the best game I've ever played. Ah, the memories. I still play it once in a while, too.

Aha. I saw I very cheap "Arcanum" just the other day and wondered if I should buy it. Couldn't remember if it got real good or real bad reviews though... Seems like a good choice then.

UPDATE: Aha 2. Just read Gamespot's review and now I remember this:

Awful combat AND dated graphics? Doesn't sound very appealing.

That's odd, though very typical of Gamespot, seems the only games they ever like are racing and FPS games. But what is odd is I thought Arcanum had won some awards. As for washed out graphics? its graphics are as good as DII, and for the bad gameplay, only if you try to switch between realtime and turnbased. I only used realtime combat and it was very good.

Most of the bugs they mentioned in that review have since been patched and the sequence of quests bug isn't a bug, there are just some quests that have to be done before others or else you can't do certain things. In all honesty, I doubt the reviewer spent more than a few minutes playing the game, if he had he would have been unable to stop playing it and would probably still be there now.

It sounds interesting. I'll check it out. Oh - one more question: does it support high resolutions or is it 640x480 only?